Athens, Ga. – The Edward T. and Sarah Laurent
Kassinger Scholarship board has awarded the 2007 Kassinger Scholarship to
Wesley Huff, a police lieutenant in the University of Georgia Police
Department. The scholarship is provided to graduate and undergraduate students
who complete academic degrees while employed full-time as a UGA police officer
or a working student in the criminal justice studies program at UGA.
Huff, who has been with the UGA Police Department since
September 1994, received a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice from UGA
in June 1994 and a master of education in human resource and organizational
development from UGA in August 2007.
Huff and his family currently reside in Crawford. His
father, a retired lieutenant from the Athens-Clarke County Fire Department,
also served with the UGA Police in the late 1960s and worked under Kassinger
during his tenure at the police department.
The Kassinger Scholarship was established in 1984 by former
employees and friends of the Kassingers who believed that students who work to
help pay educational expenses should be recognized.
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Note to editors: A photo of Huff is available by contacting
Wendy Jones at 706/542-6927 or wfjones@uga.edu.
